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Right now you own a cellphone, and we both know you ain't gonna have it forever. In a year or two you'll either donate it, give it to a friend who needs it, sell it on eBay and dump the scratch into a better model, or toss it in the trash.
Inspired by last month's Greener Gadgets conference, the similarly-named but unaffiliated thinktank TheGreenerGrass.org has come up with Linc, a phone concept that thinks differently about product lifecycles.
The Linc concept takes into account that your phone is as temporary as the computer you're using to read this. So rather than being a product, the Linc smartphone is a service; you lease it by the year and once it becomes obsolete, you ship it back to the manufacturer, who harvests and recycles the parts, and they ship you a new one. (The info on your phone is transferred wirelessly in a low-hassle manner.) From the user point of view it's something like a long-term Netflix for phones.
Shipping things back to the mannie for recycling is nothing new--check out the Y Water bottle--but what's different here is that the phone is specifically designed for automated disassembly, and designed without paints and adhesives for easier recycling. Read more about the concept here.
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Comments
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I don't think this is necessarily "rethinking product lifecycles" as this has been a prescribed method in multiple environmental design and business books. But this is a problem of wording, and not of the product itself. In the end it gets my kudos!
We do have some recycling facilities dedicated to mobile phones here in the UK, and no doubt they're far more on top of it in Europe.
A phone thats designed to be recycled from the start is fantastic though and I hope a lot more products/manufacturers start to catch on.
I hope the phone itself functions well and doesn't rely too heavily on being green as a gimmick, but it certainly looks more swish than most current high end sets imo.